How to prepare linseed?

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I have found so much conflicting info on how to do this online, how do you actually do it?

I have always been told to soak over night, then boil/simmer the next day, but now I have read that soaking is bad because it allows the bits that are 'dangerous' to meet and make the arsnic?

I think I might just buy the micronised stuff next time :rolleyes:
 
I think it is a bit of myth that you need to boil linseed.. the ANFs in raw linseed are neutralised by the stomach acid .. FWIW I use ground raw linseed on my porridge which should, if the myth had any scientific grounds, be toxic to me too.. I am obviously still here.. I post therefor I am.. ;)
 
Zuzan said:
I think it is a bit of myth that you need to boil linseed.. the ANFs in raw linseed are neutralised by the stomach acid .. FWIW I use ground raw linseed on my porridge which should, if the myth had any scientific grounds, be toxic to me too.. I am obviously still here.. I post therefor I am.. ;)
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I'm not sure that you are right and you have at most a tablespoon a day , a horse will be having a lot more.
OP i wouldn't chance not boiling it , I haven't fed it myself but have seen it done and its a horrid dirty job.
 
I first come across linseed when I had a mare on full livery, they fed all there horses it and onlyhad 4 Liverys so they got it as well :) the mare was always a poor doer and she never looked better :)
They soaked overnight then boiled this was also the way I was taught at college so I would continue this way now.
I love the smell of it and was always told the jelly of it was best bit don't know if that's true. I would not take the risk of not boiling it though
 
Yep, I have just started to boil the stuff that I soaked last night and the house is smelling of.. yuck. Just not sure that the micronised stuff will be as good.

Zuzan, maybe you are slowly poisoning yourself with your porridge.. :D I know someone else who does this too, and always wondered why they hadn't been poisoned yet, lol. I suppose a horse would be getting more, but then there is more of a horse than a person..
 
I'd've thought that the micronised would be better nutritionally because its had less chance of having its useful oils destroyed in its manufacturing process?
 
rambling said:
I'm not sure that you are right and you have at most a tablespoon a day , a horse will be having a lot more.
OP i wouldn't chance not boiling it , I haven't fed it myself but have seen it done and its a horrid dirty job.
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I eat the golden linseed as sprinkles on my meusli. A horse only needs relatively a spoonful a day... pound for pound lets say.

Still, I would get the micronised stuff... or even the oil.
 
I bought the ready made stuff and didn't see that much improvement so i started making it myself. I've seen an improvement since preparing the stuff myself

I soak it overnight, then boil it for 30 minutes and then let it simmer for a further 1-2 hours.
 
misswitch2 said:
I bought the ready made stuff and didn't see that much improvement so i started making it myself. I've seen an improvement since preparing the stuff myself

I soak it overnight, then boil it for 30 minutes and then let it simmer for a further 1-2 hours.
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Problem with cooking (not micronising) is that it destroys the omega oils..

There was a scientific paper somewhere about how the raw linseed ANFs myth is just that, a myth.... will see if I can find it..
 
I feed the full fat micronized linseed. 150gm a day, the horses look fantastic on it. They are only on Horse and Pony nuts and the linseed at the moment, an hour out at grass and haylage and even if I do say so myself look a million dollars!

Here is a pic of one, he has nothing on his coat (no show shine etc) and gets a quick brush every day.

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I just bought a bottle of linseed oil from the tack shop. I'm going to start her on it tonight. I heard it's good for her arthritis (on here) and also she is looking quite thin and I can't give her conditioning cubes since she had laminitis so I am going to try oil with her speedi-beet. At least it will be less faff then boiling the stuff!
 
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